Example sentences of "it down [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The slogans were in ill-formed , illiterate script and Owen at first put it down as the work of children ; not the children who went to the kuttub , who were infants , but older youths . |
| 2 | and among they put it down as the parents er ca n't control her . |
| 3 | Returning to the bedroom she crept back to the bed , raised the knife and without a moment 's thought drove it down into the sleeper 's chest . |
| 4 | If the gull has the nerve to dive at them , an auntie may even grab it by the feet and pull it down into the water . |
| 5 | Finally , one of them placed his foot flat on the box , right over Caroline 's face , and forced it down into the grave . |
| 6 | He followed the dive-bomber round in a very tight turn and shot it down into the sea , but found that his own aircraft was by then burning fiercely . |
| 7 | Taylor/L , A G.C. O'Nion intercepted a Z.506B which made off on seeing the fighter and attempted to evade by making steep turns , but Taylor was quickly onto its tail and forced it down into the sea . |
| 8 | It was funny in my day , when I first started there you used to get , mix up some size and er in a pot , in a proper pot and take it down into the mess room and put it on the stove , coal stove , heat it up and you let it boil over there was a terrific smell about the place you can imagine , the size but that 's what we used to do in those days . |
| 9 | Laboriously , she drags it down into the tunnel and there , in the dark , she lays a single egg on the inert body . |
| 10 | There 's Black Gemmell Pearce bit long to Rozario good ball that , oh he almost chested it down into the path of Stone . |
| 11 | The horsefly larvae use their two large jaws to capture the tiny toad and pull it down into the mud where they feed on its body fluids . |
| 12 | As his faithful knight Bedivere cast Arthur 's sword Excalibur into the waters of Llyn Llydaw the hand of the Lady of the Lake rose up to catch it and draw it down into the depths forever . |
| 13 | See I could , I could just take it round the edge of your carpet , you know , just , if er , if you want me to , if you want me to I 'll , I can lift the edge of your carpet and put it down onto the floor |
| 14 | The lines particularly can be more convenient than transfers because you can simply follow the original artwork like following a map , unwinding from the reel and sticking it down onto the film as you go along — though it can be fiddly on dense or complicated boards . |
| 15 | Aim at getting it down onto the ground before it reaches the bank , hooding the clubface by setting the hands well forward , to reduce the effective loft of the club . |
| 16 | Rumour had it the owner of the Gazi burned it down for the insurance money . |
| 17 | Hankin added : ‘ We received a biggish bid for a youngster , but I turned it down for the benefit of the future of Darlington . ’ |
| 18 | On application they literally digest smells by producing enzymes which attack the source of the odour , breaking it down for the bacteria to absorb . |
| 19 | computers and that and er he left it and he just carried on talking about this that and the other , and he says right I 'm going and he went and he left the game , he 'd brought it down for the kids , he did n't say , you know |
| 20 | ‘ Well I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of my hand . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Well I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of my hand . ’ |
| 22 | Firm it down with the fingers well , if it is John Innes compost , but compress it only lightly if soilless . |
| 23 | I wadded one into my shoulder holster as an ace in the hole , packing it down with the gun . |
| 24 | She took hold of it and put it down on the floor . |
| 25 | Quietly , humbly , Cameron took off his headset and set it down on the floor . |
| 26 | They set it down on the floor in the middle of the room , as the T'ang had instructed them earlier , then backed away , heads lowered . |
| 27 | She put it down on the floor beside her guitar . |
| 28 | so , anyway , I just , we 've got it down on the floor and I says if we had a brown suite |
| 29 | Haul it back up , then chuck it down on the deck |
| 30 | Mr Gillis seemed to delight in slamming it down on the top of the tousled head below . |